The Western media’s failure to assign agency to Palestinians—to the point of effectively erasing Hamas and the impact of their decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre—is so widespread that even thoughtful commentators on the conflict inevitably succumb to this illiberal framework.
The main conclusion of the study is that the Gaza Ministry of Health has been the primary media source of statistical information about Gaza casualties, and that journalists used its figures in 100% of all publications, whereas Israeli data on combatants killed in the territory appeared in only 3% of the articles.
There are, of course, Israeli Jews with racist attitudes towards Arab citizens of the state, and criticism of such attitudes – and resulting discriminatory policies – deserve serious scrutiny. However, within the Financial Times' moral binary, evoking oppressed Arab-Israelis who lack agency resisting their Jewish-Israeli oppressors, there is simply no room for nuance, or complexity of any kind which would complicate the desired narrative.
The Independent's analysis appears motivated by a desperate desire to obfuscate the malevolence and likely Islamist extremist inspiration for the FlyDubai hijacking, while saving all of his outrage for Israel, and providing succor for conspiracists.
Imagine for a moment if a far-right U.S. filmmaker made an anti-black documentary with a variation of the “N”-word as the title, but without the “r” at the end, CAMERA's Adam Levick writes at JNS. The moral equivalent of such an obscene racist swipe, though aimed at another historically oppressed minority, was used in the title of a documentary produced by The Guardian newspaper.
While the Financial Times uncritically cites a UN claim that "Gaza now has the highest rate of child amputees per capita in the world," there appears to be no original source for that increasingly ubiquitous allegation.
Even by the standards we’re used to in the Scottish media, it’s rare, and particularly reprehensible, for a journalist to defend the 2nd Intifada - the four-year campaign of suicide bombings, and other deadly attacks, targeting Jewish civilians at bus stops, cafes and pizza places.
More evidence that the demand by Guardian readers for new anti-Israel libels continues to greatly outstrip supply is found in an article falsely accusing Israel of using a cancer causing agent in South Lebanon as part of their campaign of "ecocide".
The Guardian shouldn’t be seen as a respectable media outlet or simply one that is “far left,” CAMERA's Adam Levick writes in JNS. Rather, it's an propaganda organ that fuels antisemitism in the United Kingdom.
While nothing much shocks us anymore about the Guardian's institutional hostility to Israel and Jews, it's important to stress that, until now, we've never previously encountered an inversion of the 1929 Hebron Massacre that frames Jewish victims as the culprits at any other British outlet.
